Malcolm’s Official Speeches in Parliament

“1984: the Bill” – The Trusted Digital Identity

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As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, tonight I draw attention to a new government bill, the Trusted Digital Identity Bill 2021. This is no time for subtlety. The Trusted Digital Identity Bill represents a watershed moment in Australian history. We stand at the divide between a free, personal-enterprise future and a digital surveillance age in which the government sits in the middle of every interaction Australians have with each other and with the world. It achieves this in the same way China does, creating a digital identity that forms a central part of a person’s life. Call it a licence to live.

This bill removes the privacy protection currently preventing this exploitation and allows the government to keep one massive data file with everything the government knows about you and to sell that file to private companies overseas. Those companies can add your private sector data to build up a complete digital record of every Australian—everything: medical, shopping, whom we associate with, social security, veterans services, travel, web viewing, employment, our social media comments. Everything will go on the record and be available to any large corporation that can pay for access. We will each have to pay to access our medical records from that corporation. In Morrison-Joyce news speak, it’s a ‘human-centric digital identity’—sounds great, doesn’t it!

This has frightening ramifications for government and corporate control of everyday Australians. Policy documents attached to this bill promote digital identity as a benign housekeeping bill to fix antiquated and incomplete government databases ‘to save a few minutes filling out that government form’, they say. ‘This will reinvigorate the economy after COVID,’ they say. What the economy really needs is for the government to get the hell out of the way and let Australians lift ourselves up through our own hard work and enterprise—remove vaccine passports or, as I call them, digital prisons; ditch QR codes; stop spreading fear; and let the Australian spirit do the rest.

One Nation believes in technological advancements and in streamlining services. We would love to see a bill come forward to clean up the government’s databases and improve the online experience of Australians trying to access our own data. This is not what the digital identity bill does. Digital identity will do nothing to fix the government’s IT, yet it creates a crown-jewel scenario for hackers to steal not just one set of government data but, rather, personalised treasure troves. Far from safe, the Australian government’s is one of the most hacked databases in the world. This year, medical records became a highly sought after target. If you want to know the direction in which global policy is headed, watch what the hackers are trying to steal.

Another concern is vaccination. Digital identity links medical history with consumer purchases. What’s to stop a government locking out an uninjected person from the economy, as more than one state premier already threatens? It is a social credit system. We should not have to ask these questions, because the power should not exist. Digital identity represents the cornerstone in a larger World Economic Forum and United Nations campaign to implement a global digital identity system.

Why is the Morrison-Joyce government allowing the World Economic Forum to write Australian legislation? This bill is a copy-and-paste from the World Economic Forum’s Global Digital Identity Project—part of the digital transformation initiative. The Morrison-Joyce government brought this package to Australia, and this bill will start the World Economic Forum package’s implementation. It’s designed to shift the global economy away from private ownership and into what the World Economic Forum calls an ‘access model’—in other words, control. Australians have heard the slogan of the globalist Build Back Better campaign. You will own nothing and you will be happy. The goal of digital identity is life via subscription. Put simply, everyday Australians will not own assets like a house, car or furniture. Instead, they will rent these from corporations—corporations that the cabal owns—or, as the UN calls them, ‘corporate partners’.

When they talk about us having less, or living sustainably, or living in a closed-loop economy, what they mean is: we will have less—a lot less—so that billionaires can have more. It’s this principle that informed the Liberal Party’s billion-dollar Digital Economy Strategy 2030 which is reliant on the Trusted Digital Identity Bill. Indeed, the bulk of the supporting commentary around digital identity and the Digital Economy Strategy 2030 obsesses about how the government will be able to manage Australia’s economy onto a so-called sustainable path—a UN path.

For a glimpse into this future, we need only look at the food menus on display at the UN climate summit that the Prime Minister attended earlier this month. Each dish listed its carbon footprint, with a United Nations pledge to reduce the carbon footprint of every meal consumed across the world, including ours, every day. What happens when a government, obsessed with pursuing digital net-zero policies, decides to encourage people to reduce the carbon footprint of our food choices? We already know the UN is pushing vegetarianism and limiting red meat consumption to one mouthful per person per day.

The level of control this legislation provides to the UN is frightening. Instead of allowing businesses to seek out and explore natural market forces and people’s needs, digital identity is a tool to introduce a controlled economy under international direction, where implementing something like net zero can be mandated individually.

One Nation rejects providing more power to unelected, unrepresentative, unaccountable UN bureaucrats to control everyday Australians in what we can eat, where we can travel, how much water and power we can use, under the threat of being shut off from the ability to feed, clothe and house ourselves.

It’s evident that this policy robs businesses of control over their own future. The government will dictate each and every business’s future interactions with customers and suppliers. Small and medium businesses will have to contend with a massive technology overhead and be forced into an unfair David-versus-Goliath fight against large, incredibly well-informed businesses that are in the globalist information-sharing club. More Australian businesses will fall to foreign multinationals.

Digital identity is the end of personal privacy, anonymity, confidentiality, sovereignty and choice. Despite the bill repeatedly insisting that it offers a voluntary service to make life easier, it’s clear from the full documentation that digital identity will be made compulsory in the same way that vaccine mandates are now.

With this bill, once again, Prime Minister Morrison is trying to ban cash. One Nation was successful in striking the government’s cash-ban bill from the Senate Notice Paper last year, after public outrage. Cashless payments are popular, but the complete loss of cash opens up an entirely different conversation. Cash is a safeguard. When we have cash, we have purchasing power. A digital identity, though, could easily limit our individual purchases based on government or corporate policy. So, under this bill, cash has to go and, under this legislation, cash will go.

Australian banks have already voiced their interest in the Trusted Digital Identity Framework, saying it will allow them to create a rich view of their customers. Most people do not want banking institutions creating rich data maps of their personal and private information. This bill will allow banks to micromanage our spending in the name of whatever social justice cause banks are promoting. The design of the new payment platform that the Reserve Bank of Australia introduced in 2018 and forced on all Australian banks, allows for the addition of a digital identity. In fact, the basic architecture of the new payment platform was designed for a digital identity. Under the new payment platform, every transaction, every retail sale, interbank transfer, pay, online sale, all come through one central server. This allows the digital identity of each party to be checked and approved before the payment is finalised. Just how long have the World Economic Forum and the UN been planning this? For decades.

In China, a person’s phone controls their lives. The same thing has happened in Australia during COVID. Without a phone to prove our identity and to cough up medical data, citizens are excluded from society. The need to carry a phone at all times—charged and ready to offer their digital identity to buy something as simple as a cup of coffee—can be replaced with a wearable or an implantable chip. I can’t wait to see how they sell that! All forced at the start of a social credit system.

The Trusted Digital Identity Bill makes a wild claim that it will solve online fraud and protect businesses and customers. The government even put ‘trusted’ in the title, so it must be true! Anyone with any experience in online fraud knows this system will not solve fraud; it will likely make it worse.

The reason we have a Constitution is to enforce absolute boundaries to stop politicians taking liberties with our liberties. The behaviour of politicians during COVID has shown everyone how quick many politicians and bureaucrats were to abuse rights and to punish and coerce citizens into undergoing untested and unproven medical procedures. This bill will give premiers and the Prime Minister the power to take such action at any time. What a terrifying prospect! For this government, once the public understand how much we’re going to lose under the global reset, oppression becomes essential. This bill becomes the framework for that oppression. The Trusted Digital Identity Bill is a global surveillance and control mechanism that profit-hungry corporations and power-mad politicians drafted and crafted. It aims to introduce the total-control economy where citizens own nothing and have no freedom and no choices.

One Nation opposes this inhuman dystopian future that the United Nations promotes as the great reset, and we condemn this parliament for signing on to it. The only way to stop this monstrous plan is, at the next election, to throw out the globalist cheer squad—Liberal, Labor, Nationals and Greens parties—and develop a potent One Nation representation to hold government accountable and return parliament to serving the people of Australia.

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200,000 signature petition against mandatory vaccines tabled

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Despite only being open for 22 days, One Nation’s petition against discrimination on the basis of vaccination status has amassed over 200,000 signatures.

The petition reads:

To the Honourable President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled. The petition of the undersigned shows:

On the 21st of October 2021, One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson introduced her COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2021 into the Senate. If supported this legislation would end the discrimination based on individuals’ COVID-19 vaccination status we see being inflicted on innocent Australians by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments, statutory authorities, local government and businesses.

This legislation must be passed with urgency in order to protect the rights and livelihoods of Australians who exercise their right to choose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19. In the words of Senator Hanson:

Australians who stand for their right to choose vaccination are just like any other Australians. They are doctors, nurses and paramedics caring for our health. They are police officers enforcing law and keeping us safe. They are soldiers, sailors and aviators defending our sovereignty. They are people who work alongside us in an office, in a factory, at a mine, on a farm or in a shop. They are volunteers helping their communities. They are people in line with us at Centrelink, and they are people sitting next to us in corporate boardrooms. They are people who live next door, down the street, across town and interstate. They are people born here and overseas, indigenous and non-indigenous, men and women, adults and children. They are our people. They are our fellow citizens. They are Australians just like you and me, with families and mortgages and worries and hopes and dreams.

https://www.onenation.org.au/vaccine-mandates

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Today I table a petition calling on this Parliament to pass our One Nation legislation stopping COVID-19 injection discrimination.

This petition was launched only 22 days ago.

In that short time, more than 200,000 Australians have put their name to it.

The people’s strong opposition to injection coercion and discrimination continues to grow.

Last weekend many thousands of Australians exercised what little freedom remains to them to protest injection mandates.

Australians have spoken loudly & emphatically, and senators will ignore this growing voice at their grave peril.

The collusion last week to block this legislation from being referred to a parliamentary inquiry sends a clear message from parliament to the Australian people: “the people must be silenced”.

Parliament’s clear message is that we, the people, must not be given the opportunity to say that we oppose injection coercion and discrimination.

The message is that senators here are very frightened at what we all might say in an inquiry.

Senators are afraid that when we speak, we will expose their false narrative that everyone opposed to injection coercion and discrimination is an extremist anti-vax conspiracist.

Many people who have signed this petition are fully injected against COVID-19.

We, the people, are not against injections; we’re against government coercion and government-approved discrimination.

We, the people understand this issue is much greater than COVID-19 injections and pandemic restrictions.

We, the people understand this is about some of the fundamental principles of Australian democracy: freedom of speech, individual autonomy and the right to choose our own fate.

Senators, our job is not to silence the Australian people.

Our job is to listen to the Australian people and do what the people tell us.

As senators, we’re not dictators. We’re servants. Senators, the people are telling you to pass our legislation and end this pandemic of discrimination.

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COVID: Governments busy point scoring

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The Morrison-Joyce government and state premiers have been busy on the political point-scoring, not the doing. Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk is far more concerned about looking good and sounding good than doing good. It’s time to stop sacking workers and instead focus on jobs and the economy and on people’s health and safety. Instead of looking good, let’s have the people safe and healthy.

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As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I agree that the Morrison government did too little, too late; yet I find it damned hard to agree with Labor, whose premiers have damaged our economy and our jobs. The Morrison-Joyce government has had no plan, was slow to respond and was slow at every point on the critical path. The government failed to learn lessons from other nations that were ahead of them—well ahead of them—such as Taiwan, where they protect the sick, the aged and the vulnerable, while keeping their economy and people’s businesses and jobs going. The Morrison-Joyce government and state premiers have been busy on the political point-scoring, not the doing.

Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk is far more concerned about looking good and sounding good than doing good. Her border lockdowns and sacking of health workers have damaged families, businesses and jobs in the regions. Under Labor, Queensland’s economic future is now jeopardised.

Had the Morrison-Joyce government allowed equal priority to other treatments, such as antivirals, many more Australians would have been treated and safe and the virus would be finished, as it is in other countries that are using the antivirals. Instead, the Morrison-Joyce government’s reliance on only one treatment is a major risk—a provisional COVID injection that the TGA did not test and could not and will not guarantee as safe, and that concerns a hell of a lot of Australians. Yet the Morrison-Joyce government and the states have chosen to punish nearly two in every 10 Australians for not taking this unacceptable injection and the risk associated with it.

Understand us, Prime Minister: the Liberal-Nationals and the Labor-Greens are forcing a huge segment of the public into voting against you. Calling honest everyday Australians ‘antivax extremists’ has never been the answer—unless you and Labor believe that punishing and threatening workers with the sack is the right way. I don’t. The name ‘national cabinet’ sounds grand yet is nothing more than a meeting of the Prime Minister, state premiers and territory chief ministers, trying to hide behind collective decision-making instead of standing up and being accountable for decisions. National cabinet is a pretend concept to protect politicians from what they are not doing and to hide their mistakes.

It’s time to stop sacking workers and instead focus on jobs and the economy and on people’s health and safety. Instead of looking good, let’s have the people safe and healthy. One Nation will continue to stand up for all Australians, injected or not injected, for our jobs, our rights and our freedoms, and to keep Australians safe.

I want to remind senators of what the people are saying. On Friday night I attended a lively meeting in Redlands, a suburb in the south-east of Brisbane. I also attended a meeting on the Gold Coast on Saturday and a meeting in Moreton on Sunday night. I heard about the bankruptcies. I heard about a person who has built a business up and has had to sell his house to pay off the assets in the business, and his wife and daughter will now not be able to work after the 17th—because of Annastacia Palaszczuk’s edict and medical apartheid. So what the hell does he do? He’s one of many, many people who are very angry, and rightly so. What about the veteran up at Moreton who has physical injuries and cannot get physio anymore? She’s a veteran and served the country—and now she’s worried she will slide backwards physically and mentally. What about all the other veterans in the same position? This is what Scott Morrison and Annastacia Palaszczuk are doing to this country.

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We need more access to Medicinal Cannabis

Since 2016 One Nation has campaigned for the step of allowing medicinal cannabis with a doctor’s prescription. Now in 2021, 184,000 applications have been approved.1,000 people a year have died from pharmaceutical painkiller overdoses. We can save more lives by making medicinal cannabis more available to those who need it. That is the next step One Nation is calling on the Government to take.

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Mr President

Since 2016 One Nation has been campaigning for natural, Australian, whole plant medical cannabis under doctor’s prescription, available through chemists on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

So far in 2021 the TGA has approved 184,000 applications for medical cannabis – an exponential increase, with Queensland leading the way.

The world hasn’t ended. Nothing harmful happened.

People are being healed.

The first cannabis product has now been approved for supply under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for Dravet’s syndrome. It’s an extract not whole plant, yet at least it’s a natural product.

One Nation worked with the Government to introduce new cannabis licensing for export producers in 2019 that’s been largely responsible for the increase.

At the time the cannabis community did not understand why One Nation was celebrating regulation changes that provide companies with the certainty needed to enter export markets.

We’re now seeing the benefit of One Nation’s advocacy. Businesses expanded production for export and have been able to supply some of that product into the Australian prescription market.

This caused prices to fall and increased the range of available options, quality and availability.

In a Senate speech in 2019 I quoted a Roy Morgan survey that found medical cannabis could help one million Australians a year. That’s looking accurate.

Most of the growth in medical cannabis has come from pain relief, just one of the many uses for medical cannabis.

In 2019, 1000 Australians died of overdoses from prescription pain killers.

No-one’s ever died from prescription medical cannabis. There are more lives to be saved here moving patients from fatal narcotic drugs to medical cannabis.

I urge the Government to widen approved use of medical cannabis to include epilepsy and chemotherapy support, amongst others.

Our people, our community and our nation deserve improved access to medical cannabis.

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COVID Question Time

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Despite millions attending rallies for freedom across the country, almost no COVID outbreaks have been recorded from them. We are also seeing concerning data out of other countries as Australia rolls out a booster shot and BigPharma rakes in billions of dollars.

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[Senator Roberts] My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Colbeck. In recent months, more than one million Australians have participated in freedom protests around our country, with many not wearing a mask, not socially distancing, and mostly, being uninjected. Opportunities for person-to-person transmission of COVID runs into the tens of millions, which, we’re told, is inviting mass outbreaks, yet the only case I know of COVID transmission at a freedom rally was a cluster that occurred in the Melbourne rally, and that cluster was amongst Antifa, anti-freedom protesters. Minister, in the last three months, how many COVID clusters, that’s two or more infections, have occurred at freedom rallies?

[President] The Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Colbeck.

[Senator Colbeck] Thank you, Mr. President. Thanks, Senator Roberts, for the question. Mr. President, I don’t think that there’s been any attempts to attribute specific COVID infections to any such public event of that nature. So, I don’t have, and we don’t hold, the government doesn’t hold data in relation to that, although it may be that some of that information is held at a state level, where the contact-tracing processes for COVID-19 are conducted, Mr. President, but can I go back to something that I have put to the Chamber on a number of occasions? The whole point of where the government is going in relation to the vaccination programme is to get as many Australians as possible to be vaccinated. We know the vaccine works, we know that it’s safe, and we know that it supports ourselves, in protecting us from COVID-19, we know that it protects our families, and we know that it protects our communities. And one of the really fortunate things that we’ve seen in this country is the willingness of Australians to go out and get vaccinated. In excess of 92% of Australians have now had a first dose, in excess of 86% of Australians have now had a second dose. It’s one of the reasons that we are able to start to reopen our economy, to reopen our communities, which is what I think the people who are participating in these protests are looking for. They want to see us be able to get around more freely, and the discipline, the decision to take up a vaccine, which we know is safe, we know that works, is really important, Mr. President, and we continue to monitor circumstances globally, as I said in my answer to the question earlier in time to Senator Smith, so that we can understand what’s happening with new variants, we can take appropriate actions to protect Australians from those new variants while we learn more about them, get to understand the impact that the vaccines might have on those new variants so that we can keep Australians safe. And we will continue to take all of the actions that we need to do just that.

Minister, your time has expired. Senator Roberts, a supplementary question.

[Senator Roberts] Thank you, a European study found the death rate per 100,000 of double-vaccinated subjects averaged 2.5 per month, with the uninjected rate lower, at 1.1. The government has authorised the third booster shot, so must have modelled death rates against overseas experience and have an anticipated outcome from your booster programme. Minister, what is the anticipated death rate for triple-vaccinated Australians as compared to unvaccinated Australians?

Minister.

[Senator Colbeck] Thank you, Mr. President. One of the things that we’ve seen here in Australia, and around the world, and one of the things that we’ve been concerned about as the pandemic has continued to progress is the impact on the unvaccinated of the virus. I know that when I was in Japan earlier in the year, the reporting out of the US that I saw on a daily basis was that in the United States, it was becoming very much a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Somewhere between 90 and 95% of those in hospital, suffering severe symptoms of COVID-19, were actually unvaccinated. Some figures out of New South Wales earlier this year indicated that similar proportions, 90 to 95% of those in hospital with severe illness, severe symptoms of the virus, were actually unvaccinated, Mr. President. The data is very clear. The data is very clear, and it shows up in the circumstances of the most vulnerable in this country, that the vaccine works.

Minister, Minister, your time has expired. Senator Roberts, a second supplementary.

[Senator Roberts] The South African Health Minister said on Sky News that the scientist who isolated Omicron never said it would be vaccine-resistant. Angelique Coetzee, the South African Medical Association Chair, stated on Fox, “Symptoms are so mild, we don’t know why so much hype is being driven,” yet Australian media have dialled fear to the maximum, freedoms are again being removed, and big pharma are raking in billions from boosters. Minister, will the death of the Liberal Party be counted as a COVID death or as self-inflicted?

[President] Minister.

[Senator Colbeck] Thank you, Mr. President. I suspect a party as proud as the Liberal Party will probably be around for a fair while longer than Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party. So, Mr. President, and I look forward to that, Mr. President, but can I say I do agree with Senator Roberts with respect to, we need to take the time, take the moment to understand the circumstances of this new variant. That’s why the government has taken the proportionate measures that it has done to ensure that we have the time to understand what the impact of this variant might be with respect to vaccination, with respect to transmission, with respect to the seriousness of its impact on the communities before we continue the processes that we’d undertaken with respect to opening up. That’s why we took the appropriate precautionary response at the weekend to say seven nations, oh, sorry, nine nations will cease access to Australia. So, we need to-

Minister, Minister.

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Freedom protests worrying major parties

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The recent freedom protests across the country are a major worry for the major parties. This weekend stands as a warning to power-hungry politicians and bureaucrats.

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Last weekend, more than half a million Australians came together to protest anti-human, and possibly criminal governments. The media were there, not to report on proceedings accurately and with integrity, but to lie and cover up for our medical dictatorships. What we all saw around Australia was not right-wing extremists.

What One Nation saw was everyday Australians united in a desire to get government and health bureaucrats out of their lives, to be left alone to make the best decisions for their bodies and for the bodies of their children. It was no surprise that a common sign being held high was “My Body My Choice,” on one occasion, written on the back of a Greens election poster. Apparently “My Body My Choice” is a value the Greens abandoned, and their hypocrisy is widely noticed.

The Liberal Party should be scared at the number of signs from small businesses that capricious, callous government mandates shut down. The closures destroyed lives and weakened local communities. The Labor Party should be concerned at the hand-written t-shirts from former unionists in health care, education, police and emergency services, and healthcare facilities, fired for the crime of respecting their bodies. Labour voters know more.

Another sign simply read “Pray, Reflect, Vote.” Religious leaders advocating action contrary to religious teaching are not going to come out of this unscathed. The rallies were peaceful and the mood was positive, energised. Many Australians have realised that fear is the virus, and the cure is to embrace family and community with love and inclusion.

The only fear was from some small groups of spectators infected with the media mutation. The weekend stands as a warning to all power crazed health bureaucrats, state premiers and federal politicians. We have one flag, we are one community, we are one people, we are one nation, and we will not be scared and bullied into surrendering our bodies and our freedoms.

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Greens need division and victims

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The Greens profit from division and discrimination. You cannot label someone an oppressor without making a victim, so it is not in their interest to actually save victims.

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I want to refer to speeches that you gave yesterday and also Senator Thorpe. In your speech, you mentioned the term far-right extremist or extremist, every third or fourth line that enshrines separation. Five times in just 18 lines. Senator Thorpe used the term white privilege 11 times on average every fourth line, driving hate and conflict.

Now in private talk with Senator Thorpe, and not meant to be kept private but personal talk, she recognises to me that the Aboriginal Industry is doing enormous damage, but she doesn’t say that in public. What we’ve got is gutless, woke bureaucrats shovelling money continually to keep the gap open so that the people in the Aboriginal Industry, both black and white, can make money off it.

Care requires data and facts, not emotive slogans and labels. Care requires understanding. Senator Thorpe talks about climate and Aboriginals, the UN and Aboriginal, property rights and Aboriginals. They are not the same. These very things are hurting the Aboriginals, but not as much as the resort to labelled. Keeping people locked in victimhood makes them dependent so that The Greens can control them.

I’ve never heard anyone condemn you for your race, your gender, your background, only for your incitement to division and hatred. You have the privilege of being in the Senate and representing Australians. But your rhetoric is dividing on basis of race. Yet every Australian recognises we all have red blood, regardless of our skin colour. We all have a human spirit that we share with every human regardless of ethnicity, regardless of background, regardless of prejudices. And it’s about time that people in this Parliament, especially in The Greens, started to recognise that we should be united, we are one people.

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Australia is at war with Government

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There was never any science nor any modelling that suggested we could suppress the virus so, instead, governments suppressed and oppressed the people to hide political foolishness, failings and gross mismanagement.

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As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I am ashamed to say that Australia is at war—at war with state and federal governments. I am appalled that Friday 17 December looms in our state as the official date of segregation between the injected and the un-injected. Two years ago, anyone who had dared suggest such a scenario would have been mocked and labelled a conspiracy theorist. It could never happen in our country. It would have been unthinkable that any Australian political leader would consider segregating based on injection status even as a strategy to deal with COVID under the guise that we can all regain our inherent human right to move freely throughout our country.

Despite Victoria being the world’s most locked down jurisdiction, and Victorians until recently suffering under increasingly draconian restrictions, Victoria today has more cases of COVID than it did a year ago. There was neither any science nor any modelling that suggested we could suppress the virus so, instead, governments suppressed and oppressed the people to hide political foolishness, failings and gross mismanagement. What started as a supposed war on COVID became a fear-driven war against the people of Australia to make politicians appear to know what they were doing yet politicians and health bureaucrats making decisions and destroying our lives have not suffered themselves. These privileged positions have remained intact, these people have not lost jobs and are not wondering how the hell to feed their families; instead, the privileged have been comfortably working from home, waiting for the storm to blow over. Our confidence and trust in governments have collapsed because we have been lied to.

The Australian people witnessed sweeping inconsistencies, contradictions and hypocrisy on virus rules and, in this, the Queensland premier excels. After two years, state and federal politicians still do not act with one shared view of what a hotspot is, resulting in thousands of double-injected Queensland residents abandoned for months at huge cost just over the border in New South Wales, unable to return home. The fact that the Queensland premier can hold residents in such low regard is repugnant, disgusting, inhuman.

The Prime Minister’s lame pretence to push back against mandatory injections provides little comfort to Australians. It drives scorn, derision and anger. He says the federal government does not mandate COVID injections yet leaves the states and territories to run wild with mandates that gut and make a mockery of informed consent, bodily autonomy and human rights—lies. Federal agencies destroy the primacy and privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. Federal government health data is essential for states to enforce mandates, and the Queensland Premier says her decision to divide and segregate is in line with the spuriously labelled ‘national cabinet’, a concoction over which the Prime Minister presides.

Our political leaders don’t know when to stop hurting the people. Their thirst for personal ease and political control over the masses is their justification for draconian measures shredding privacy and human rights, wreaking havoc with people’s lives and mental health, and endorsing segregation based on injection status. The rhetoric throughout COVID has been ‘we’re all in this together’. The Queensland segregation date of 17 December shows we are not. It’s unconscionable that, unless injected, Queenslanders will be barred from social and leisure activities and health services. Is the federal government going to stand by and let the Queensland Premier deny uninjected Queenslanders a restaurant meal, a drink in the pub, a coffee and, despite paying our taxes, medical care except in an emergency? Confidence in the injection should translate into the confidence of being protected, making it unnecessary to marginalise people choosing to remain injection-free. Are people so scared that this logic is lost?

There was an opportunity this week for the government to support Senator Hanson’s bill, which outlaws discrimination based on injection status, yet the majority of government senators hid in their offices and did nothing. They’re hiding from constituents and scurrying from accountability. The federal government is doing nothing to stop the imminent segregation of the Australian people. To avoid getting hands dirty, enforcement will be outsourced to state police and small-business owners. We need to stop our political leaders dividing us and driving coercive discrimination against our fellow Australians. We need to work together as a nation of Australian people, not state against state in an insane, futile race to suppress and eliminate COVID when what is really being suppressed is the people. People are now taking to the streets, protesting to push back government overreach and restore our freedoms. People know freedom, privacy and human rights have been eroded too much for too long, at huge cost, and with both courage and desperation they march in the streets now. It seems freedom isn’t always easy and free. Sometimes it must be fought for. Today we’re still fighting for common sense, for our freedom and for our democracy. We want it back.

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Lambie needs to withdraw false claims

Senator Lambie has been subject to lots of commentary surrounding her backflip on mandatory vaccination. In the context of this large amount of conversation and the fact the phone number was already available in the public domain, there is nothing to prove that the inclusion of the phone number in the periphery of my post was the cause of Senator Lambie receiving calls.

Anyone may have acquired Senator Lambies number from the numerous other sources in the public domain and contacted her. The leaking of private confidential information should be condemned. This number was not leaked, and it was not private, being already available in the public domain.

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Yesterday Senator Lambie falsely claimed under parliamentary privilege that I had leaked her private personal phone number.

Senators Birmingham and Wong falsely implied I had published private information.

This ambush was coordinated for the start of question time in front of journalists.

With no warning, so that I could not fully address the false claims and ask Senators Lambie, Birmingham and Wong to withdraw them as I now do.

The phone number in question was not private.

Senator Lambie herself has posted the number to her FaceBook page multiple times, as far back as 2019.

It’s readily available on the internet in letters and posts Senator Lambie previously published.

The criticisms made yesterday were based on the claim that this number was private and confidential. This is evidently not the case; the phone number was already in the public domain and remains so.

It’s not possible to ‘leak’ a phone number already in the public domain. Nor is it private.

The phone number was in the periphery of a post that I re-posted and that focused on a reversal of Senator Lambie’s stance against injection mandates to now supporting mandates.

The post did not emphasise the phone number nor call on anyone to contact Senator Lambie.

Senator Lambie’s own FaceBook followers condemned her speech against Senator Hanson’s bill on Monday. Senator Lambie needs to take responsibility for her own comments, those of her FaceBook followers and for repeatedly posting her phone number.

Breaches of privacy should be condemned.

Senator Lambie’s number was not leaked. It was not private. It was already in the public domain.

I ask that Senators Lambie, Wong and Birmingham withdraw any comments accusing me of leaking a private number and to apologise for them.

Both senate leaders showed yet again that decisions, policies and legislation are all too often based on opinions and hearsay, not data and facts. And for that the people of Australia pay needlessly, heavily and daily.

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Abundance is something to be celebrated

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Abundance is not a dirty word, it is a blessing to be celebrated. It is time to return to the Australia we know and love.

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As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I note that we are living through a time of great civil disturbance. The media have chosen to fill our screens with exaggerated horror and fear. As a result, families are turning against families, neighbours against neighbours, and employers against employees. At this difficult time, we cannot lose sight of the good in this world. While it is daunting for some, we benefit from counting our blessings and looking forward to again becoming the Australia we all know and love. My message tonight is simple: ‘abundance’ is not a dirty word; it’s a blessing to be appreciated.

Australia is blessed with natural diversity in climate and soil. Somewhere on our continent exist the conditions necessary to grow any crop to rival the world’s best. Whether it’s olives in Inglewood or cashews at Dimbulah, Aussie farmers will always step forward to have a go. As 42 countries slip into food deficits, Australia’s agricultural output is at record highs. We’re literally feeding the world right now, and more water for our farmers will feed more of the world’s hungry. Our entrepreneurship lifted Australia from a prison colony to a top-10 world economy. Australians invented the black box flight recorder, heart pacemakers, the electric drill, bionic hearing, wi-fi hotspots and even Google Maps. This flow of innovation has not stopped. It continues. The University of Queensland has pioneered a world-first tissue culture system that can produce up to 500 avocado plants from a single cutting. This gives Australian producers the ability to bring new cultivars to market, faster, cheaper and using fewer chemicals than anywhere else in the world. The world avocado market is valued at $20 billion, and Australia has only $500 million of that so far.

Let’s look at mining. An Australian invention called the Reflux Classifier allows for the recovery of minerals that normally run to waste in the processing of ore. The University of Newcastle pioneered this recent technology, returning $1.5 billion in royalties to Australia every year. The University of Newcastle recently registered a patent on a new type of low-cost thermal storage called miscibility gap alloy. Miscibility gap alloy raises the promise of storing energy from non-baseload power sources, to be fed back into the grid at times of peak energy demand. This has the potential for a multibillion dollar export and licensing industry. I certainly hope so, because that may stop some arguments about the proliferation of unreliable renewables—what I call ‘intermittents’. Miscibility gap alloy could not exist without carbon and without mining. The economic powerhouse that is Australian mining has kept Australia out of recession these last two years. At one point, we had the world’s largest value of stored natural resources. If we were still exploring for the bounty this land has given us, we may still be the richest country in the word. It’s not too late. We need to reject the black-armband view of our history and, by extension, our future. We need to embrace entrepreneurship, to defend the inalienable right of everyday Australians to lift themselves up through hard work and enterprise, and we need to make sure the benefit of that hard work accrues to the Australians doing the work, to everyday Australians, not to foreign corporations. Let me explain.

The wealth each Australian creates every year, called the gross domestic product—per capita and inflation adjusted—increased from $41,000 per person in 1980 to $77,000 per person in 2019. Do we feel almost twice as wealthy as we did 40 years ago, though? No, definitely not. Median or mid-point wages have not increased in this period. The spoils of the hard work of everyday Australians have not gone to everyday Australians. Instead, this wealth has gone to foreign multinational corporations and to the administrative class. Public Service wages are growing at four per cent while private enterprise wages grow at less than one per cent, and that’s just not right. What’s needed in the short term is the removal of all COVID restrictions so the economy can open up and the Australian entrepreneurial spirit can repair the damage of COVID lockdown mismanagement. Then we need to remove green tape so farmers can farm and miners can mine. Instead of unelected, unaccountable foreign bureaucrats dictating to us, we must start making decisions for ourselves. Government does have a role to build the roads, the dams and the railroads. We need to restore our productive capacity to support this growth. Tax and finance reform are necessary to ensure that Australians can access the capital to expand and ensure that the profits from that expansion stay here.

We have one flag. We are one community. We are one people. We are one nation. Abundance is not to be ashamed of. Abundance is a blessing to celebrate.

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